Data on the functions of government: Where are we now?

The Disappearing State?: Retrenchment Realities in an Age of Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 44-74

  Fraser, Neil ^a   Norris, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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